About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Fruit and vegetable combination farming. Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato). Outdoors. Wet/damp. Dusty. Hot. Noisy. Cold/refrigerated. Dirty. Work setting: Rural area.
Tasks
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots.
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market..
- Hand harvesting vegetables.
- Pack fruits and vegetables.
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops.
- Seed cutting.
- Weeding.
- Harvest crops.
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Vegetable harvester.
- Planting equipment.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Ability to work independently.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Work under pressure.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Tight deadlines.
- Physically demanding.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Attention to detail.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Sitting.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Walking.
- Personal suitability: Judgement.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Values and ethics.
- Quick learner.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Morning.
- Experience: No experience (will train).
- Employment terms options: Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.